Back in November, I posed the question: “How do you know if you’ve chosen the right job?” That post came in response to a particularly difficult start to the new school year, in which I felt like I was an optional entity up in front of the room that students could ignore on and off …
Financial Friday: 6 Things Worth Splurging On
Now I love a bargain as much as the next person, but a lesson I think I’ve really been learning lately is that there are some things in life that are worth spending a little bit of extra money on. Mind you, I’m not talking hundreds of dollars of extra money here (I AM a …
Can reading ever be as good as it was when you were a kid?
Photo taken in 2005 One positive thing that I’ll occasionally have the pleasure of seeing as a teacher is a kid who finally “gets” that reading can be enjoyable—there is something truly magical about matching up the right book with the right kid, and in that lucky moment, that child’s reading life is [hopefully] changed …
February Goals
New month, new goals. However, I can’t very well go on with the new until I’ve made myself accountable for the old, so here’s how I did on January’s goals: *Sign up for a half marathon. I signed up to do Thanksgiving Point’s “Tulip Run” Half-Marathon, and I’m stoked. Of course, signing up was the …
January Reading
Although I started last month with such high hopes for what kind of reading I’d get done, I pretty much failed miserably on my January goal to read two books off my lists (mostly because I totally read the wrong book, which kind of killed the motivation I would have needed to finish up the …
Supporting Family: Isn’t It About . . . Time?
In my Language Arts classes, I’ve been teaching my students weekly out of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. In the book, the author (Sean Covey) talks about how we can liken our relationships with other people to a bank account—each action that builds and strengthens the relationship is like putting a deposit into …
These are the Action Words I Worry are Going Out of Style…
Image via I will be (one of the) first to admit that today’s kids have a lot going for them—they are remarkably tech-savvy, most of them look at going to college (or pursuing some other post-high-school degree) as a given, and many of them are pursuing more extracurricular activities and developing more talents than many teens …
50 Weeks to Organized: Week 49
I know that 2013 is over (and thus, also, is my “50 Weeks to Organized” project), but what I didn’t tell you was that I still haven’t finished posting about my last two projects. So today, you get my second-to-last project of the year (Jewelry) that I had been putting off until the end only because I …